All of the Vital Records we have access to are listed on Town pages at Ukraine SIG's home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine). There are a lot of vital records for towns that are held in various archives in Ukraine. Few have been fully cataloged and even fewer have been digitized. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and FamilySearch.org hold most of the latter. We are working with the Central Archives to acquire and index their records, but it takes a Town Leader, first of all, to create a project, and then to coordinate a fund raising project to acquire and translate the records. If the towns you are interested in do not have a Town Leader, records, if they are available, will not be acquired, indexed, and put on line by us.

See your town's page for a list of records we are able to acquire. Contact me about becoming a Town Leader if you want to help us go beyond that point. Thanks!

Chuck Weinstein
Towns Director, Ukraine SIG
cmw521@earthlink.net

All of the Vital Records we have access to are listed on Town pages at Ukraine SIG's home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine). There are a lot of vital records for towns that are held in various archives in Ukraine. Few have been fully cataloged and even fewer have been digitized. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and FamilySearch.org hold most of the latter. We are working with the Central Archives to acquire and index their records, but it takes a Town Leader, first of all, to create a project, and then to coordinate a fund raising project to acquire and translate the records. If the towns you are interested in do not have a Town Leader, records, if they are available, will not be acquired, indexed, and put on line by us.

See your town's page for a list of records we are able to acquire. Contact me about becoming a Town Leader if you want to help us go beyond that point. Thanks!

Chuck Weinstein
Towns Director, Ukraine SIG
cmw521@earthlink.net

Hello
I am looking for information about vital records of the town Trovitz
(Torhovytsia) in the middle of the 19th century.
[1900s District: Dubno
1900s Province: Volhynia]

Is such records existed?
Where they managed? (I know cases that the town was small,
Records were administered the adjacent large town).
Will they survive?
Where they have been saved?

Thank you
David Nesher
Israel

Hello
I am looking for information about vital records of the town Trovitz
(Torhovytsia) in the middle of the 19th century.
[1900s District: Dubno
1900s Province: Volhynia]

Is such records existed?
Where they managed? (I know cases that the town was small,
Records were administered the adjacent large town).
Will they survive?
Where they have been saved?

Thank you
David Nesher
Israel

I'm just back >from the IAJGS conference in Seattle, where it was a
pleasure to see honors bestowed on a number of Gesher Galicia SIG
members and GG list subscribers.

Mazel tov to

Susana Leistner Bloch
JewishGen's Volunteer of the Year, for her work on KehilaLinks

and to these IAJGS award recipients:

Ron Doctor, President of the Kremenets-District Research Group
Lifetime Achievement Award

Lance Ackerfeld, Manager of JewishGen's Yizkor Book Project
Outstanding Project/Resource/Program

Debbie Wang
President of the JGS of Long Island,
accepting her society's awards for Outstanding Publication
and IAJGS Member of the Year

Jan Meisels Allen (chair), Teven Laxer, Amy Wachs
IAJGS Salutes! - for their work on the IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee

Kitty Munson Cooper
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work on the IAJGS Cemetery Project

Brooke Schreier Ganz (a member of the GG Board)
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work to "Reclaim the Records"

Sara Mages
IAJGS Salutes! - for her volunteer translation work, including several
Galician yizkor books

Congratulations to them and to all the other winners!

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@gmail.com

I'm just back >from the IAJGS conference in Seattle, where it was a
pleasure to see honors bestowed on a number of Gesher Galicia SIG
members and GG list subscribers.

Mazel tov to

Susana Leistner Bloch
JewishGen's Volunteer of the Year, for her work on KehilaLinks

and to these IAJGS award recipients:

Ron Doctor, President of the Kremenets-District Research Group
Lifetime Achievement Award

Lance Ackerfeld, Manager of JewishGen's Yizkor Book Project
Outstanding Project/Resource/Program

Debbie Wang
President of the JGS of Long Island,
accepting her society's awards for Outstanding Publication
and IAJGS Member of the Year

Jan Meisels Allen (chair), Teven Laxer, Amy Wachs
IAJGS Salutes! - for their work on the IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee

Kitty Munson Cooper
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work on the IAJGS Cemetery Project

Brooke Schreier Ganz (a member of the GG Board)
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work to "Reclaim the Records"

Sara Mages
IAJGS Salutes! - for her volunteer translation work, including several
Galician yizkor books

Congratulations to them and to all the other winners!

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@gmail.com

I've hit a brick wall.

I'm trying to find my great grandparents marriage record. The local governments,
county governments and the New Jersey State Archive records office have no
records of this event. I am thinking that may be they only had a Jewish marriage
license and it was never registered as any kind of a civil marriage.

This marriage took place between 1891 and 1910. The area where it might have
taken place is Salem County New Jersey in and around the numerous Jewish farming
colonies of that time. The couple in question would have been Berisch (Bernard)
PICKHOLTZ and Bluma BERNSTEIN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Pickholtz
nj55turtle@comcast.net
searching--- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings),and KLEIN (of
the Phila. produce family)

I've hit a brick wall.

I'm trying to find my great grandparents marriage record. The local governments,
county governments and the New Jersey State Archive records office have no
records of this event. I am thinking that may be they only had a Jewish marriage
license and it was never registered as any kind of a civil marriage.

This marriage took place between 1891 and 1910. The area where it might have
taken place is Salem County New Jersey in and around the numerous Jewish farming
colonies of that time. The couple in question would have been Berisch (Bernard)
PICKHOLTZ and Bluma BERNSTEIN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Pickholtz
nj55turtle@comcast.net
searching--- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings),and KLEIN (of
the Phila. produce family)

I had a great-great-grandfather back in Nova Ushitsa (probably the town of
Kalyus) in southwestern Ukraine named Shneur Zalman KRASINSKY. Not a single
person I ever asked of my relatives knew whether their ancestry or family
customs were Lubavitch, since the first rebbe of Lubavitch was Rabbi Shneur
Zalman of Liadi. Considering how far Nova Ushitsa is >from the centers of
Lubavitch chassidim I have always assumed Shneur Zalman was likely to have
been common among non-Chabad Jews as well.

My great-great-grandfather was probably born in the late 1820s, and Rabbi
Shneur Zalman died in 1813 to the far north in Hadiach, Ukraine, so I guess
it is theoretically possible that my great-great-grandfather was named for
him.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this issue in terms of someone being
named Shneur Zalman despite being far >from the center of the Chabad chassidim?

Thanks!
David Goldman
NYC

I had a great-great-grandfather back in Nova Ushitsa (probably the town of
Kalyus) in southwestern Ukraine named Shneur Zalman KRASINSKY. Not a single
person I ever asked of my relatives knew whether their ancestry or family
customs were Lubavitch, since the first rebbe of Lubavitch was Rabbi Shneur
Zalman of Liadi. Considering how far Nova Ushitsa is >from the centers of
Lubavitch chassidim I have always assumed Shneur Zalman was likely to have
been common among non-Chabad Jews as well.

My great-great-grandfather was probably born in the late 1820s, and Rabbi
Shneur Zalman died in 1813 to the far north in Hadiach, Ukraine, so I guess
it is theoretically possible that my great-great-grandfather was named for
him.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this issue in terms of someone being
named Shneur Zalman despite being far >from the center of the Chabad chassidim?

Thanks!
David Goldman
NYC

Hi is there any update on projects >from these cities (Balta, Krive
Ozero, Savran, Ananev)?

Regards
Sergey Tokman

Researching: TOKMAN / TOCMAN / TUCKMAN/ TOCKMAN everywhere; KRAVTSOV
balta, GELLER tiraspol; BENDERSKY tiraspol

Hi is there any update on projects >from these cities (Balta, Krive
Ozero, Savran, Ananev)?

Regards
Sergey Tokman

Researching: TOKMAN / TOCMAN / TUCKMAN/ TOCKMAN everywhere; KRAVTSOV
balta, GELLER tiraspol; BENDERSKY tiraspol

My maternal great-great-grandfather was Gerz ELIOWICZ LINEWSKI. What is the
Hebrew or Yiddish Jewish name embedded in the Patronymic ELIOWICZ?

Stephen Denker

Brookline, MA
Researching Bialystok

My maternal great-great-grandfather was Gerz ELIOWICZ LINEWSKI. What is the
Hebrew or Yiddish Jewish name embedded in the Patronymic ELIOWICZ?

Stephen Denker

Brookline, MA
Researching Bialystok

Hello Everybody,

I just found out my family was issued the Polish Passports in Ostroleka on 16
October 1922.
They were also visaed at "The American Consul" on 12 January 1923. It had a
notation on the Visas "Born in Poland".

I need these to prove my grandmother and her son, my father were both Polish
Citizens in Poland after 1918.

Where can I find these at now. Thanks for all your help.

Stephen Dardzinski. USA

Hello Everybody,

I just found out my family was issued the Polish Passports in Ostroleka on 16
October 1922.
They were also visaed at "The American Consul" on 12 January 1923. It had a
notation on the Visas "Born in Poland".

I need these to prove my grandmother and her son, my father were both Polish
Citizens in Poland after 1918.

Where can I find these at now. Thanks for all your help.

Stephen Dardzinski. USA

Dear Genners:

Over 3 years ago, I tested with 23 and Me and the above-mentioned are
my maternal & paternal haplogroups respectively.

I have the following questions:

a) Anybody else out there in Jewishgen land with one or both of the
same haplogroups that I am in? If you are, then I'm very sorry to say
that we're both related somehow. But, don't worry. I'm not going to
ask you for a loan to put down on a house or a car or anything like
that. (a cruise...maybe). :)

b) It seems as if the DNA research groups in Jewishgen are
restricted to those who are clients of a competitor of "23 and me".
Is there anyway that we clients of "23 and me" could also participate?

Thanks!! And wishing you all a great week.

Best,
Rashi Rosenzweig
Ra'anana ISRAEL
(who also discovered that he is 2.9% Neanderthal and darn proud of it)!!

Dear Genners:

Over 3 years ago, I tested with 23 and Me and the above-mentioned are
my maternal & paternal haplogroups respectively.

I have the following questions:

a) Anybody else out there in Jewishgen land with one or both of the
same haplogroups that I am in? If you are, then I'm very sorry to say
that we're both related somehow. But, don't worry. I'm not going to
ask you for a loan to put down on a house or a car or anything like
that. (a cruise...maybe). :)

b) It seems as if the DNA research groups in Jewishgen are
restricted to those who are clients of a competitor of "23 and me".
Is there anyway that we clients of "23 and me" could also participate?

Thanks!! And wishing you all a great week.

Best,
Rashi Rosenzweig
Ra'anana ISRAEL
(who also discovered that he is 2.9% Neanderthal and darn proud of it)!!

I learned more than a few things here.
http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-month-abroad-part-two-grip.html

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem

I learned more than a few things here.
http://allmyforeparents.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-month-abroad-part-two-grip.html

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem